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saghir69
07-26-2004, 09:55 AM
ok say i got a site with 3 pages of content. but only 1 physical page. ie



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link1 - points to "generatepage.php?id=1"
link2 - points to "generatepage.php?id=2"
link3 points to "generatepage.php?id=3"
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generatepage.php

generates a full page (page title, images, all the text etc) depending on the link clicked.

Does your site get seen as having 3 page or 1? in the search engine eyes?

liamsquire
07-26-2004, 10:58 AM
I'm not definate, but if you put meta tags and keywords etc in your generatepage.php, the generated pages "MIGHT" be cached by the search engine spiders or they might not. But I think on the whole it is seen one page.

It could be like when you search for a product sometimes you get a generated page on goolge or something.

Not sure. But that my 2 cents.

blackdog
07-26-2004, 12:59 PM
search engines will usually do fine with urls like that. however, in the past google has seemed at times to ignore the parameter "id". i'd change it to ?page= or something just to be safe.